Brachysira | Genera - Diatoms of North America

Brachysira Guide

Category

Symmetric Biraphid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Naviculales
Family

Brachysiraceae

Type Species

Brachysira aponina Kütz.

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund - Jan 2009
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - Apr 2010

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Citations

Camburn, K.E. and Charles, D.F. (2000) Diatoms of Low-Alkalinity Lakes in the Northeastern United States Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Special Publication 18, 152 pp.
Compère, P. (1988) Brachysira microcephala (Grunow) Compere nom correct de "Navicula exilis" Grunow 1860 non Kutzing 1844 Mem. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 10: 9-11
Hartley, B., Ross, R. and Williams, D.M. (1986) A check-list of the freshwater, brackish and marine diatoms of the British Isles and adjoining coastal waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 66(3): 531-610.
Lange-Bertalot, H. and Moser, G. (1994) Brachysira Monographie der Gattung Bibliotheca Diatomologica 29: 1-212
Reimer, C.W. (1961) New and variable taxa of the diatom genera Anomoneis Pfitz. and Stauroneis Her. (Bacillariophyta) from the United States Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 113: 187-214
Round, F.E. and Mann, D.G. (1981) The diatom genus Brachysira. I. Typification and separation from Anomoeneis Archiv Protistenkunde 124: 221-231
Shayler, H.A. and Siver, P.A. (2004) Description of a new species of the diatom genus Brachysira (Bacillariophyta), Brachysira gravida sp. nov. from the Ocala National Forest, Florida, U.S.A. Nova Hedwigia 78: 399-409
Siver, P.A. and Hamilton, P.B. (2011) Diatoms of North America: The Freshwater Flora of Waterbodies on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Iconographia Diatomologica 22
Van de Vijver, B. and Schuster, T.M. (2021) Observations and typification of Navicula serians var. thermalis Grunow and its transfer to the genus Brachysira Notulae Algarum 190: (23 April 2021)
Van de Vijver, B., Schuster, T.M., Kusber, W-H, Hamilton, P.B., Wetzel, C.E. and Ector, L. (2021) Revision of European Brachysira species (Brachysiraceae, Bacillariophyta): I. The Brachysira microcephala - B. neoexilis enigma. Botany Letters 168(4): 467-484.

Publication Link: 10.1080/23818107.2021.1909499
Van de Vijver, B., Schuster, T.M., Kusber, W-H, Williams, D.M., Wetzel, C.E. and Ector, L. (2021) Revision of European Brachysira species (Brachysiraceae, Bacillariophyta): II. The Brachysira styriaca and B. zellensis group. Botany Letters 168 (4): 485-502.

Publication Link: 10.1080/23818107.2021.1923062
Van de Vijver, B., Schuster, T.M., Kusber, W.-H., Kennedy, B., Hamilton, P.B., Albert, R.-L., Ballings, P., Wetzel, C.E. and Ector, L. (2021) Revision of European Brachysira species (Brachysiraceae, Bacillariophyta): III. Species formerly included in the Brachysira serians-complex. Botany Letters 169(1): 83-105.

Publication Link: 10.1080/23818107.2021.1941250
Wolfe, A.P. and Kling, H.J. (2001) A consideration of some North American soft-water Brachysira taxa and description of B. arctoborealis sp. nov. Lange-Bertalot-Festschrift Studies on Diatoms, Dedicated to Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Lange-Bertalot on the occasion of his 65th birthday
Wolfe, A.P., Cooke, C.A. and Hobbs, W.O. (2006) Are current rates of atmospheric nitrogen deposition influencing lakes in the eastern Canadian Arctic? Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 38: 465-476

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Spaulding, S., Edlund, M. (2009). Brachysira. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://diatoms.org/genera/brachysira